Ark, I got cold a little early

"You think it's not good, but you still bought it?"

Laurentina, who was in charge of paying, looked at Skadi speechlessly, saying that the food was not tasty, but her body was very honest and took another candied haws and complained.

"Hmm...but Yu likes this food. I want to see if there's something wrong with my taste buds..."

Skadi chewed hawthorn in her mouth and explained slowly.

"Eh?! That's right! Laurentina! I want one too!"

On the other side, Ishamara seemed to show considerable interest in the candied haws after hearing Skadi's explanation, and then raised her hand towards Laurentina.

"..."

Silently taking out her wallet, Laurentina paid again under the slightly subtle gaze of the candied haws stall owner.

Stall owner: Is this... a divorced mother with twin kids?

Laurentina: This family will fall apart sooner or later without me!

After getting her own candied haws and eating it, Ishamara made a statement that might significantly reduce Hongyu's favorability towards her.

"Unappetizing……"

She commented as she wiped the red candy stains from the corners of her mouth.

(Hongyu, not knowing which beast was taking advantage of him, suddenly felt unhappy.)

"A bit..."

Isamara's comment made Skadi nod her head. "So, why does Yu have such a special liking for this food?"

“嘛… … “Are you aware of the path?”

Laurentina waved her hands helplessly, as if wanting to end the topic quickly.

"After all, preferences aren't something anyone can decide on their own. For example...we all like that bastard Yu, but other people may not like him?"

"This example is so inappropriate..."

Ishamara narrowed her eyes slightly and sarcastically said, "Even if you loudly declared in this square, 'I love Yu the most!' Yu wouldn't be able to hear you."

"Uh-huh."

Skadi nodded on the side.

After hearing what the two said, Laurentina realized that her previous example seemed a bit too self-destructive and clenched her fists with a slightly red face.

"From now on, you guys will pay for it yourself..."

"What a vicious woman... She actually grabbed the vitals of me and Skadi in one fell swoop..."

Laurentina's words made Isamara cover her heart with her hands, her face full of pain.

"Stop showing off and go look for Hongyu somewhere else."

Ignoring Isamara's antics, Laurentina began to plan the next possible route to find Hongyu.

(At this time, Golletia was on her way to Longmen.)

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"Bang!"

In Hongyu's grocery store, a familiar sound suddenly came from the back door.

After Hongyu walked to the back door and took out another piece of paper from the mailbox, he was sure that this mailbox seemed to be coming to the rescue.

He now urgently needed a relatively long period of time to calm down his brain, which was gradually overloaded by the fierce attacks of the Year Beasts.

Although he had just promised not to run away from this relationship not long ago...but...

They were a little too enthusiastic, especially Ling, who even took advantage of the fact that he didn't want to do anything that might hurt her and completed a home run with him in his dream.

And after waking up, I had this inexplicable feeling that I had been raped again without realizing it...

Oh...they really...

Therefore, Hongyu decided to let his brain enter a relatively calm period immediately, so the next time he traveled through time became his best decision.

Anyway, I roughly calculated that no matter how much time passed in the timeline I traveled through, the time that passed in reality would basically not exceed ten hours.

Hongyu thought so, and it was a coincidence that this piece of paper arrived.

Is this a coincidence? Look, I didn't ask for it to happen. It just happened to end up in my mailbox for no apparent reason. It has nothing to do with me.

This isn't me trying to find a place to escape because of their actions! This is a tactical rest!

As he was thinking, Hongyu (completely forgetting that he had a letter from Tallulah of the Reunion Movement in his drawer) glanced at the contents of the paper. It roughly contained a transfer contract for an orphanage in Kazdel...

Wait... Kazdel...

Isn't this the place I just wanted to go?

How come someone gives me a pillow just when I’m about to fall asleep?

but……

Orphanage?

Why does it feel like this has nothing to do with Kazdel in the original setting of Ark...

Hongyu thought back to the description of Kazdel in the original Arknights plot text...

Well, apart from natural disasters, wars, mercenaries, the death of Theresa (no, crossed out), and so on... I don't remember much else.

I have a feeling that if I go, and if this time travel limits my strength again... a lot of not-so-good things will happen...

But after thinking about it, even if the current self does not travel to Kazdel's timeline, the future self will definitely go there, so in the end, Hongyu decided to sign this transfer contract.

But then again... your mailbox really doesn't care at all. It should be a mailbox. Shouldn't it be able to receive anything as long as it's a piece of paper?

PS: Please vote, please comment, please comment!!

I’ll write the storyline where the Deep Sea Hunter pins Hongyu to the ground and violently assaults Hongru after Kazdel is finished writing it, I can’t think of anything right now…Private Marseille.

83

Chapter 83: Taking care of children is a process that must be appreciated.

After finishing his breakfast made of millet, Hongyu told several beasts that he wanted to take a nap, saying that he did not sleep well last night, and then went to his room with the transfer contract.

Although Hongyu's behavior of taking a nap almost as soon as he got up made the other beasts (except Ling who felt quite guilty) feel strange, no one said anything.

After all, who hasn’t felt a little sleepy from time to time?

"Wow, old man, what did you do last night?"

Nian spoke in a teasing tone as she casually spread out the novel she had bought. It seemed that her idea of reading with Hongyu had been dashed.

"Ahem, Yu also has times when he doesn't sleep well and gets tired too, Nian."

Ling coughed a few times. Obviously, she attributed the root cause of Hongyu's "tiredness" to her unrestrained demands in Hongyu's dream last night.

"……Too."

After hearing Ling's words, Nian nodded.

Perhaps he remembered that he and others in Dayan a thousand years ago also believed that Hongyu was an omnipotent person who could do anything. In the end, because of this filter, when Hongyu went to face Sui alone, no one knew his thoughts, and no one knew that he would die.

This kind of filter is indeed what happens when you are young and ignorant, just like a child who thinks his father is omnipotent when he is young.

So, Yuta does get tired... Okay, inertial thinking is harmful...

Smacking his lips, Nian smiled at Hongyu and said, "Alright, alright, old man, take some rest. Don't get bedridden one day because you're too old..."

"If you guys don't mess with me, I think it won't be a problem for me to live for another few thousand years."

Hongyu smiled helplessly, then opened the door of his room and walked in.

By the way...isn't the room in my small grocery store a little insufficient?

So where have they been sleeping these days?

Forget it, I don’t want to think too much. I always feel that if I think too much, I might find something not so good. Sometimes people have to learn to deceive themselves.

Scratching his head, Hongyu lay down on his bed, and then casually tossed the transfer contract to the mailbox at the back door.

After Hongyu returned to his room this time, he learned his lesson and knew that he could lie on the bed first and then throw the transfer contract into the mailbox at the back door. This way he could prevent himself from falling on the sofa again and lying on the floor for ten hours.

In a moment, Hongyu's consciousness faded away in an instant.

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When Hongyu opened his eyes again, he appeared in a place that was a joke to say it was prosperous, and a place that was shabby but seemed very prosperous compared to other places in Kazdel.

In a small town that was neither big nor small, Hongyu stood in front of an orphanage with a transfer contract in his hand.

Looking at the door of the orphanage and then at the paper in his hand, Hongyu couldn't help but think that his last "birth point" in Agor was also at the door of an orphanage?

"You are the wronged one... ahem, Mr. Yu, right?"

While Hongyu was standing at the door of the orphanage in a daze, an old man dressed fairly decently walked out.

"Yeah, it's me, and you?"

"The director of this orphanage, oh, no, now it should be the former director."

The old man walked up to Hongyu, looked at his appearance, and then added:

"Although I don't know why you're willing to take over this mess left behind by those 'good people' for free, but... young man, I have to warn you in advance: don't think this orphanage is easy to manage."

"Let's not talk about whether you can take care of the child, let's just talk about whether you have the ability to protect this piece of land without the protection of the powerful and wealthy."

After saying this, he looked at Hongyu as if he still thought that Hongyu looked so weak that he couldn't protect the orphanage in the chaotic Kazdel.

"Please rest assured about this. Since I am willing to sign your transfer contract, I have my own confidence and trump card. Old man, just leave it to me."

Faced with the old man's doubts, Hongyu didn't want to express anything, but just spoke calmly to make the other party have some confidence in himself.

Of course, Hongyu was able to say such words because he had his own confidence.

Because in just a few minutes, Hongyu had already discovered that this time of crossing would impose very few restrictions on himself.

It’s about the same level as... the strength I had the last time in Dayan.

"Really? Well, young man, take care of yourself. It's best for an old man like me, who's about to be buried, to pass away..."

Hongyu's assurance made the old man feel a little relieved. He said something emotional and left the orphanage.

I don’t know where he went.

But his affairs have nothing to do with Hongyu. The more important thing now is to go inside this orphanage and then experience something that one has to experience every time they travel through time - taking care of children.

After pushing open the door of the inner room, Hongyu was attacked in the face by a tattered rag doll.

“Hahaha! Old man, you’ve been fooled this time… Eh? Who are you?”

The voice of an unfamiliar child reached Hongyu's ears. He took off the rag doll from his face expressionlessly, and then looked at the faces of several children in the room whom he didn't recognize.

It looks like... there's no familiar face...

Tsk…hiss—do I still have to wait for the plot? Or are there any satellite operators that I've forgotten because I keep skipping plot lines?

"Tell me! Who are you?!"

The older child in the lead, the one who had just set a rag doll trap for Hongyu, bravely asked Hongyu loudly.

"The new director of the orphanage, that old man has retired..."

As he spoke, Hongyu took out a kite from somewhere and continued, "But... it seems that as a new 'young man' like me, I still need to establish my authority among you..."

As he spoke, Hongyu showed his best fake smile, and immediately, all the children in the room felt a chill down their spines.

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"Your Majesty, why are you so concerned about this orphanage?"

"There's no reason, Kal'tsit. This is where I grew up. Even though... that bad guy is dead, it's true... coming here from time to time always makes me feel better."